If you need something to keep you going when you're writing, to remind you of what you're trying to do and why, what inspires you and drives you, write it down and have it somewhere accessible when you're having a stuck day.
Memoir writing can be emotionally demanding - delving into the past and unearthing histories... writing about secrets, difficult relationships, conflicts, betrayals, loves and losses can be draining or taxing as well as nourishing and catalysing. A manifesto is one of the many ways of reminding you when you need to stop and do something else to take your mind off it, whether crying at a re-run of Eastenders or counting your cutlery.
This is mine, but it could say anything, really...
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